QDAT Converter

Extract text from QDAT files


Drop or upload your .QDAT file
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How to extract text from your QDAT file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your QDAT file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert QDAT to another file type

To convert your QDAT file to another format, you need Apple Safari or other Data software.

Convert a file to QDAT

To convert other file formats to the "Browser History / Cache" file type, you need software like Apple Safari or a similar tool.


About QDAT files

A .qdat file is primarily an internal data file used by Apple Safari to store browsing history or a temporary cache file generated by the Wise Installation System for QuickTime Player.

Users typically encounter these files in two frustrating scenarios: recovering deleted browser history or finding what they believe is a lost video file in a QuickTime folder. The main constraint is that .qdat files are not standard documents or media files; they are proprietary binary databases or installation scripts. They cannot be played as video (MP4/MOV) because they do not contain audio-visual streams, only installation parameters (like font settings and paths). Opening them in a standard text editor yields illegible code.

For Safari data, the best approach is to convert the file to TXT or CSV using a hex editor or data parsing tool to extract URLs and timestamps. For QuickTime cache files, no conversion is necessary - they are safe to delete after installation. To inspect the contents of any .qdat file without specialized software, you can rename the extension to TXT and open it in Notepad++ to view the raw text headers.

Convert.Guru analyzes your QDAT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted DAT, MOV, H264 and PICT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert QDAT file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Apple Safari or similar software from the "Browser History Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to QDAT, try Apple Safari or another comparable tool in the "Browser History Data" category.



The QDAT Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our QDAT converter.